On Mao’s Political Ideology

Description

This book by Yang Fengcheng is a reference book which pursues a deeper research on the Mao Zedong Thought. It offers an objective, equitable, and comprehensive introduction and assessments on the past and latest achievements in the study of Mao Zedong Thought in China and other Western countries and on the controversial issues in the study. When deciding on the English edition of this book, we have aimed to deliver the global reader a complete picture on how Mao Zedong and Mao Zedong’s ideology is evaluated and studied in today’s China. It is a representative book of its kind and also reflects how the mainland Chinese scholars have evaluated foreign studies on Mao Zedong. Yang Fengcheng, the compiler of this comprehensive book offers enough evidence that studies in China over Mao Zedong himself and his ideology has remarkably improved and being institutionalized after that evaluation and in 1990s. Yang Fengcheng and his colleagues have presented a large catalogue of new research findings and debates among scholars and experts studying in this sphere. These abundant and thought provoking materials surely offer a broad vision for a wide range of related people including scholars, politicians and activists.

It will be impossible to understand today’s and future China without understanding Mao Zedong and the CPC. Mao Zedong had made the deepest effect in China’s life and readers may find solid evidence that this will be valid for a long time to come.